Some are very fine and soft; babies are washed with them.

The sponge has many uses.

I will relate some of them, and I hope my friends will remember what I say.

One use is to wash the face; I don't like it myself, but I do it because I wish to be clean.

Some people don't, and they are dirty." Here the eye of the reader rested sternly upon Dick and Dolly, who quailed under it, and instantly resolved to scrub themselves virtuously on all occasions.